A laptop can store thousands of documents and also enable you to quickly create new documents and edit existing ones using a variety of tools. Although a smartphone is limited, you can easily transfer a document from your laptop to your smartphone using a USB cable. Windows 7 automatically recognizes the device, so you don't even have to worry about drivers.

1. Connect the smartphone to your laptop using the USB cable that came with the device. Windows 7 automatically recognizes the phone as an external storage device and assigns a drive to it.

2. Click the "Start" button in the bottom left corner of your screen and click "Computer" to launch the native Windows 7 file manager.

3. Locate and select the document you want to transfer to the smartphone.

4. Press "Ctrl-C" to copy the document to the clipboard.

5. Open the drive assigned by Windows 7 to your smartphone. Open the folder in which you want to store the document.

6. Press "Ctrl-V" to paste the document from the clipboard. Depending on its size, the transfer can take from one second to several minutes.

7. Disconnect the smartphone from your computer.

Warning

Do not disconnect the smartphone from the computer until the transfer is complete.